Lighting in Production

Lighting in Production Ever since you’ve added lights to your own scene, and adjusted their choices and controls, you press Make. Your first render is, from best, a rough draft of what you would like to develop into a qualified final product. Most of your time and effort in lighting is spent revising...

WHAT LIGHTING EQUIPMENT MUST NEED

  WHAT LIGHTING EQUIPMENT MUST NEED? We expect you to be able to ask this question, so you’ll find a precise and definitive response ready. We do not would like to leave out any details, therefore this will be another two-part response: 1. No photographer has enough lighting equipment to...

THE CONCEPT OF VARIABILITY

Photographers are by necessity experimenters. Although they are not thought of as scientists operating in a research atmosphere, they most certainly are experimenters: Every time an exposure is made, and the negative is processed, a genuine experiment has been made. There is no way the photographer...

GETTING STARTED WITH RAW

I’ve been shooting with digital SLRs and digicams with RAW capture capability for some time, but only occasionally used that format when making photographs. Why? At the time, most of the software provided or sold to you by the camera manufacturers for the explicit purpose of working with RAW files were...

What is Camera Raw?

The fi rst thing to understand about camera Raw is that it is not one fi le format, but many. Camera Raw formats are proprietary, developed by camera manufacturers to best handle the data produced by individual models. Hence, the Raw file format produced by Canon’s EOS 5D will diff er from that produced...

Why Black and White?

Among all photographers—professional and amateur—black and white accounts for less than 10 percent of the photos that are taken. Why then is it still so popular among serious photographers? There are a number of reasons, any one of which you might have discovered for yourself. When I began teaching, I...